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Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV)

THUNDERFISH®

The Kraken ThunderFish® is a highly advanced, 6000 meter rated, Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (H-AUV). The ThunderFish® AUV program development began in 2014 with a mission to create a more versatile and compact vehicle that is easier to handle than existing systems, while providing more space for payloads, and fast turn-around times.

ThunderFish® Alpha is Kraken’s Mid-Sized Autonomous Underwater Vehicle and the first platform in the Thunderfish series of vehicles. Versatile payload options and a modular battery system allows to ThunderFish® Alpha to be adaptable to many different AUV missions of varying depths, duration, and applications.

Dimensions (L x W x H)

3.50 m x 0.95 m x 0.50 m

Hull Design

Wet Flood, Syntactic Foam Fairing

Hull Frame

Titanium

Dry Weight

675 kg Vehicle / Batteries 750 kg w/Sensors

Wet Weight

+5 kg – Positively Boyant (including 10 kg emergency drop weights)

Depth Rating

1,000 or 6,000 meters

Self Righting

Yes

Payload Capacity

75 kg

Motors

Twin Brushless DC Thruster Motors

External Connections

Power, Ethernet, WiFi

Data Storage

4 TB hot swappable Data Pod

The ThunderFish® Alpha AUV is offered in two depth ratings of 1,000 or 6,000 meters, and is equipped with state-of-the-art sensor systems, including Kraken’s AquaPix® MINSAS sonar and SeaVision® 3D Laser Scanner. Other sensors include obstacle avoidance sonars, multi-beam echo sounder and advanced navigation/positioning sensors. It incorporates pressure-tolerant battery technology from Kraken Power GmbH, optional Kraken DataPod data storage modules and a distributed control system architecture. This allows the AUV to quickly complete survey missions, offload survey data, enable efficient integration of additional payloads and provide more battery capacity for increased operational endurance.

Top down view of the THUNDERFISH AUV showing vertical thrusters for hovering capability.

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Kraken Robotics is a marine technology company engaged in the design and sale of advanced sonar and optical sensors for underwater vehicles used in military and commercial applications. We are recognized as world leading innovators of SAS, a revolutionary underwater imaging technology that provides ultra-high resolution seabed imagery. In addition, we have developed our own underwater vehicles which offer a highly integrated underwater offering with a strong price/performance value proposition.